Art in an unsettled time. Bohemian book illumination before Gutenberg (c. 1375-1450)Studničková, Milada ; Theisen, M.Thirteen studies in English and German bring new insights into a number of masterpieces of Bohemian book painting, which have been examined so far mainly from a stylistic point of view. The book also acquaints the readers with unknown or little-known manuscripts. The publication illustrates how the turbulent end of the 14th century and the socio-political changes of the Hussite period influenced the form of manuscript production. The researches, inter alia, focus on the relationship between text and image, the function of the depiction, the mass productin of manuscripts, and the question of what Hussite iconography is.

SNA´19 - Seminar on numerical analysis.Blaheta, Radim ; Starý, Jiří ; Sysalová, DagmarSeminar on Numerical Analysis 2017 (SNA'17) is a continuation in a series of SNA events held\nin different places in the Czech Republic and organized alternatively by Ostrava and Prague\ninstitutions. The SNA'17 is organized by the Institute of Geonics of the CAS in collaboration with\nVŠB - Technical University of Ostrava and IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre.\nConference location is one of the lecture rooms in New Aula of the VŠB-TU Ostrava.\nLet us note that SNA 2016 was reshaped to EMS School in Applied Mathematics (ESSAM)\ndevoted to mathematical modelling, numerical analysis and scientiffc computing. The SNA'17\nis turning back to more traditional winter event.\nIt provides opportunity for meeting and mutual information of the community working in computational\nmathematics and computer science, but an important part of SNA is devoted to the\nWinter School with tutorial lectures focused on selected important topics within the scope of\nnumerical methods and modelling.\nThis year, a part of the Winter School will be the course Parallel Linear Algebra (PLA) organized\nby the European research infrastructure PRACE, particularly by the French PRACE Advanced\nTraining Centre - Maison de la Simulation. Winter school lectures will cover the ongoing topics\nrelated to domain decomposition methods, interval computations and numerical veriffcation. The\nPLA course will provide lectures from the area of direct and iterative parallel solvers, as well as\npractical training with selected programs.

Cosmology on Small Scales 2018: Dark Matter Problem and Selected Controversies in CosmologyKřížek, Michal ; Dumin, Y. V.According to the standard cosmological model, our Universe needs a significant amount of dark matter, about six times more than that of the usual baryonic matter, besides an even larger amount of dark energy. But to date, both dark matter and dark energy have remained conceptually elusive, without concrete evidence based on direct physical measurements. Yet another subtle issue is that the Friedmann equation – the cornerstone of modern cosmology – was derived from the system of ten Einstein’s equations applied to a perfectly symmetric universe, which is homogeneous\nand isotropic for every fixed time instant. So, the question is whether one can perform such excessive extrapolations and, in particular, at which scale the effect of Hubble expansion is manifested.

Právní informatika a legislativa - o projektu elektronizace tvorby práva a Sbírky zákonůNovák, FrantišekThe paper deals with the description of possibilities of using the IT technology in the field of legislation, understood as the system of legislative forms or documents (Laws) on one side and the process of creating and issuing those documents (Law Acts) on the other. It describes special scientific projects aiming at studiyng several problems of legislation with the use of IT technology and their results including the design of special tools for perfecting the legislation as such as well as the work of the legislator: e.g. legal retrieval (information) systems, databases of egal information, tools of 'legimatics', or monitoring of the development of the legislative system. The second part of this study si devoted to presentation and evaluation of two new Czech projects: e-Legislation and e-Collection of Laws. Analysed are the goals and principles of those projected systems and their operation. And, of course, their future.

Emil Svoboda mezi Bratislavou a Prahou - bludní Holanďané a útrapy pražského domácíčka?Kober, JanFollowing the nearly forgotten story of Slovak porfessorship of Emil Svoboda, the article analyses the historical process of obtaining a professorship in Czech legal academia of the early 1920s, in the time of the university boom. Emil Svoboda was working for his professorship in Bratislava. His attempt to enforce the appointment of a professor in Prague for the promise of several years of 'pioneering work' in Slovakia failed, as did the less successful attempt to obtain at least the promise of a future Prague professorship as a counterbalance to leaving for Slovakia. Still, he elft for Slovakia, believing that the position at the law faculty would increase his chances of future success. However, the knowledge that he will lose his academic positions in Prague led him to resign quickly from the Bratislava university chair and to be satisfied with the certainty of the Prague Technical University professorship and with the associate professor position at the Faculty of Law of Charles University. In the end, he proved to be right and he would be an imaginary winner in this situation - a brief presence in Bratislava preovided him with the possibility of external lecgturing at this university for several years without losing his two teaching positions in Prague.